Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

- Bennett, Jill

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

10.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

12.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

13.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

14.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

15.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

16.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

18.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

19.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

23.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

25.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

26.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

28.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

33.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

45.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

49.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington